ANLY482 AY2016-17 T2 Group 2 Project Overview
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Project Background & Motivation
Various agencies in the government are interested to identify skill mismatches and emerging skills for planning purposes and for programs such as SkillsFuture Singapore. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) and GovTech started this project to meet these impending needs.
They understand that there are high-paying jobs that no one is applying and a possible reason for that is because Singaporeans do not have such skills. In addition, with the evolving technology, companies will require new types of skills from their employees. For example, ReactJS was an upcoming programming language that was not in the market until two years ago, and has been quickly popularized to be demanded by many companies nowadays.
Jobsbank.gov.sg is a website administered by Workforce Singapore (WSG) to facilitate online job matching between Singapore-registered companies and local individuals (Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents). Companies are able to advertise their job vacancies on the website and individuals can use it for their employment needs.
In the job postings, skills that the companies are searching for are intertwined in the title, description and requirements. GovTech wants to leverage on this data to uncover emerging skillsets and existing skill mismatches of the labour market. This project will leverage on natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to build a classifier that can identify words that are representative of the skills required for a job in a job posting. This classifier can then be applied to summarize the skill outlook for the job market – e.g. popular skills required by the sector or industry.
Through this project, GovTech hopes to understand the skills that are sought upon for the agencies to come up with better policies and skills development programs to inculcate these skills amongst Singaporeans.
Project Objectives
This project aims to build a text analytics model that extracts text from job postings in jobsbank.gov.sg to obtain a list of relevant skills. Thus, our main objectives are to:
- Curate a set of labelled data from the job postings
- Use this data to build a model that can identify and summarise skills
Sponsor Background
GovTech
The role of GovTech or Government Technology Agency of Singapore is to co-create a technology enabled future and at the same time building smart nation capabilities and expertise. GovTech aims to harness the best info communications technologies to make a difference to the everyday lives of people in Singapore. In a move to centralize all public sectors technologies, GovTech is in-charge of IT developments from all government agencies.
